Ratio Juris

Published in conjunction with the University of Bologna

Edited by:
Carla Faralli

Ratio Juris is a leading international journal of philosophy of law and general jurisprudence. It provides a truly international and trans-cultural forum for the communication of philosophical ideas about law and legal questions. Ratio Juris is open to scholars from all backgrounds and traditions, legal, philosophical, political, cultural and linguistic.

Ratio Juris covers classical topics such as: the nature of law; law and morality; justice; rightness and natural law; law and reason; the logic of norms; artificial intelligence and law; law and language; legal obligation; rights validity and the legitimacy of law; the rule of law; legal epistemology; rules and principles; rules and acts; legal reasoning; interpretation; deontic logic and expert systems in law.

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TopHighlights

Can Theories of Meaning and Reference Solve the Problem of Legal Determinancy?
Brian H. Bix

A Modest Notion of Coherence in Legal Reasoning. A Model for the European Court of Justice
Leonor Moral Soriano

Friendship, Identity and Solidarity. An Approach to Rights in Plant Closing Cases
Gary Chartier

Why a Charter of Fundamental Human Rights in the EU?
Erik Oddvar Erikson

Natural Law and the Bhagavad-Gita: The Vedic Concept of Natural Law
Michael S. King